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Bleurgh!

Hmmmm ... you know that lurgy I mentioned? Well it never really went. Never got worse and never left my head hence I've been exercising.

The last few days my throat has been a bit sore now and then but nothing major and fine when swimming. Today I had the occasional cough but again fine overall. Until I got to the pool of course!

Plan was 1hr including some "speed-work" and ended up with 200m warm up, 20-25mins sort of jogging sort of admiring the super fast man swimming sort of coughing then 200m cool down. About 45mins in total. My throat was really dry despite drinking 500ml water whilst in the pool and tickly so I wanted to cough the whole time.

So I wrote it off as a bad job but better than doing nothing.

As for that man ... well he did the length of the pool in 17 strokes (individual hands into the water) , barely splashed and was so cool! I was trying to watch his technique under water but he was too fast! It was like watching the front runners in a race (normal race not like FLM with professionals and such like), just awesome! Graceful and smooth and fast! Nice body too!!

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